Author Bios

Michael Fitzgerald is an editorial fellow at Miller-McCune. He has previously worked at The New Republic and Oxford American Magazine.

Carson Vaughan is a freelance journalist living in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Wilmington, North Carolina. His work has appeared in Salon, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, The Omaha World Herald, The …

Jeffrey R. McCord is a former US Senate staffer and former Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) executive, and has been a freelance journalist for Dow Jones publications. McCord, whose …

Margie Kelly is an environmental health advocate and Communications Manager for Healthy Child Healthy World, an organization that ignites the movement that empowers parents to protect children from harmful chemicals. …

Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a French politician who served in the government of France as Minister of Vocational Education from 2000 to 2002. He was also a member of the …

Katie Thomas joined The New York Times as a sports writer in January 2008. Before joining The Times, Ms. Thomas served as a staff reporter at Newsday from 1998 …

Lauren Feeney is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist whose work has taken her from the crime-infested streets of west Philadelphia to the mountains of northern Pakistan. Before …